Project brings a Mars farm plot to Wisconsin
Two University of Wisconsin-Stout professors are taking their students to Mars.
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2015
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News tagged with soil sciences
Orbiter views Mars surface fractures
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often takes images of Martian sand dunes to study the mobile soils. These images provide information about erosion and ...
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2015
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Researchers identify behaviors of nanoparticle that shows promise as nanofertilizer
Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered unique behaviors of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HANPs) that show promise as a phosphorus nanofertilizer and could be used to help slow the release of phosphorous ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 3, 2015
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Citizen scientists enlisted for research examining soil moisture conditions and water availability
NASA scientists are on a mission to map global soil moisture, and through SciStarter, they're teaming up with citizen scientists to gather valuable data from the ground to complement and validate what is seen from space.
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2015
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SMAP team investigating radar instrument anomaly
Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, are assessing an anomaly with the radar instrument on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite observatory. The radar is one of two science ...
Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2015
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Soil in Northern China is drying out and farming, not climate change, is culprit
An important agricultural region in China is drying out, and increased farming may be more to blame than rising temperatures and less rain, according to a study spanning 30 years of data.
Environment
Jul 10, 2015
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Farmers can use free online system to map fields and reduce soil erosion
Dean Patches' to-do list has no end.
Environment
Mar 16, 2015
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New DNA facility gets down and dirty with WA's soil microbiology
Soil microbiology will be better documented thanks to a new high-throughput DNA sequencing facility, launched last month at the University of Western Australia.
Environment
Jan 14, 2015
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Researchers offer taphonomic degradation processes for mammalian hair
(Phys.org) —A team made up of researchers from the U.S. and Australia has put together what they describe as a complete outline of the taphonomic (post-mortem) degradation processes for mammalian hair. In their paper published ...
Undergraduate studies how rhododendrons invade and conquer by disturbing nitrogen cycle
How important is the soil beneath our feet to what grows above it?
Environment
Oct 16, 2014
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